Gosopodaria Nereju, Vrancea county, second half of the 19th century (1875)
Nereju Mic House comes from the Vrancea ethnographic area, an area with villages that were organized in the past (the mastery and common use of land in the border) and where there was a continuous concern for cultivating the earth, whose productivity was increased by fertilization through the "mourning" process.
Built in the second half of the 19th century and transferred to the museum in 1936, the house of Ion Stoian Creţu presents us an interior arranged in a characteristic Vrâncean note, with widths on the walls and in the polychrome stripes on the bed or on the dowry box. In the tent there are gangs decorated with pyrogravated floral motifs and a leather drum, and in the room, expressive wood or fur masks, used for the specific habits of winter holidays (Christmas and New Year) or used at the Privilege of the Dead ("Chipăruș" Dance)
The house is built on a stone foundation, of round fir beams and has a closed porch with a pierced plank and christened pillars, at the closed end a wooden bed used for rest. The roof in four waters is wrapped with a shaped fits in the "duck beak", and the walls are glued with clay and you are inside and outside.
The house is surrounded by a plank fence, access being made through an ingenious sliding wood. Beside this, glued to the fence, the "Merindarul" is distinguished, where the housewife put water and fruits for foreign travelers who transit the locality, a sign of hospitality.
The locals were craftsmen recognized in the processing of wood, specialized especially in the making of the vessels in the duages and of the shingles, a mirror craft, in fact, in the inventory of tools present in the chiler of the house.
